I like the size over an A5 or A6 that you might hear a lot about if you are doing a bullet journal. for the money it just didn't seem to make a lot of sense to go for a Luchtern 1917 especially for my first bullet journal that wasn't a discbound Arc journal. The discs just kept getting in the way. The binding is good. The bookmarks are good. The dot size and darkness are great. My issue is with the amount of ghosting and bleeding of the ink through the paper. I'm using Pilot V5 Precision Extra Fine pens mostly and it is just a little too visible on the other side of the paper. It doesn't seem to get in my way however so I'm going to continue with it.